In the summer of 2000, the NBER held its twenty-first annual Summer Institute. Nearly 1000 economists from universities and organizations throughout the world attended. As in prior years, this year's program was funded primarily by a grant from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, with additional support from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Aging.

The papers presented at dozens of different sessions during the four-week Summer Institute covered a wide variety of topics. A complete agenda, and many of the papers presented at the various sessions, is available on the NBER's web site here.